Looking Back At 20 Vintage Posters From The 40′s & 50′s

posted on 14th July 2010 by Paul Maloney with the tags: "", "", "", "", "" .
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Vintage is a design genre that is being covered in all aspects of media in recent months, whether it is for the web or printed media you most likely have stumbled upon a piece of vintage design. Activities such as burlesque has had a huge revival and this has contributed to the surge in vintage design as it has attracted many people to the imagery of the 40′s and 50′s.

Here is a small collection of twenty interesting and inspiring pieces of art from people such as Peter Driben, who was responsible for the pin-up style covers on magazines such as Titter, Wink and Eyeful.

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Remarkable

American Export Lines

Greyhound

Free As The Birds

Evening In Paris

Cheer

Famous Five

Tide

Radio

Betty Crocker

Admiral

Liberty

Stockings

English Rose

Peace Haven

I hope you found these as useful as I did; I used a number of these images whilst working on a recent client project. I found them particularly useful from the typeset perspective and how it was done back then. Please do give this post a quick stumble if you enjoyed it!


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